Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 288 297
Rank change year-on-year +44 +9 -93
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 526 565 519
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.91% 0.97% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 1.09% 1.12%
Number of salaries quoted 238 285 366
10th Percentile £41,644 £42,608 £44,155
25th Percentile £55,233 £55,322 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,906
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -8.33% +1.29%
75th Percentile £88,438 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £119,125 £96,250 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,108 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.51% -5.03% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,535 51,647 46,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.52% 88.55% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 28,396 26,504 35,505
10th Percentile £28,432 £35,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £99,899
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,500 £54,793 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.49% +4.37% -2.51%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +44 471 £70,000 +3.70% 931
London +103 251 £80,000 +3.23% 182
UK excluding London -21 225 £62,500 -2.51% 858
Work from Home +26 162 £72,250 +11.15% 541
South East +12 79 £62,500 -3.85% 238
North of England +13 51 £75,000 +15.38% 186
Midlands -21 41 £62,250 -4.23% 142
West Midlands +3 27 £57,468 -11.59% 75
Yorkshire +17 26 £82,500 +26.92% 70
North West +13 24 £68,750 -1.79% 101
East of England +36 22 £72,000 -0.69% 119
South West -16 16 £62,500 +16.28% 95
Northern Ireland +5 12 £75,000 +26.20% 20
East Midlands -25 12 £80,000 +33.33% 57
Wales +4 4 £53,750 -16.16% 19
Scotland +3 3 £42,000 -29.33% 49
North East -7 1 - - 15

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.23%) Confluence
2 6 (1.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.38%) CICS
3 2 (0.38%) CMS
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.38%) MTS
Applications
1 13 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.76%) Trello
6 2 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 17 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
2 10 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.95%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.76%) Shopify
5 1 (0.19%) Magento
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 77 (14.64%) SaaS
2 68 (12.93%) Azure
3 50 (9.51%) AWS
4 32 (6.08%) GCP
5 22 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (3.99%) PaaS
6 21 (3.99%) Vertex AI
7 18 (3.42%) Power Platform
8 13 (2.47%) Azure AI
8 13 (2.47%) GitHub
8 13 (2.47%) H2O.ai
8 13 (2.47%) OpenShift
9 7 (1.33%) GitHub Copilot
10 5 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (0.76%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
12 3 (0.57%) Collibra
12 3 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.57%) Google Analytics
12 3 (0.57%) Microsoft 365
13 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.52%) Broadband
2 7 (1.33%) HTTP
3 6 (1.14%) 5G
3 6 (1.14%) RTP
3 6 (1.14%) SD-WAN
3 6 (1.14%) WAN
3 6 (1.14%) Wireless
4 5 (0.95%) LAN
4 5 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.76%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.76%) PSTN
6 2 (0.38%) ATM
6 2 (0.38%) GPRS
6 2 (0.38%) LTE
6 2 (0.38%) Modbus
6 2 (0.38%) SAN
7 1 (0.19%) 4G
7 1 (0.19%) Intranet
7 1 (0.19%) Network Security
7 1 (0.19%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.80%) Metadata
2 16 (3.04%) Power BI
3 14 (2.66%) Data Lake
3 14 (2.66%) Relational Database
4 12 (2.28%) Data Mining
5 10 (1.90%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.52%) RDBMS
7 7 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.14%) SAP BW
8 6 (1.14%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.95%) Tableau
10 4 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.57%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.38%) DB2
13 1 (0.19%) Big Data
13 1 (0.19%) Data Vault
13 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 34 (6.46%) JIRA
2 5 (0.95%) TeamCity
3 4 (0.76%) ERwin
4 3 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.19%) ER Studio
5 1 (0.19%) Jaeger
General
1 213 (40.49%) Social Skills
2 181 (34.41%) Finance
3 116 (22.05%) Marketing
4 112 (21.29%) Analytical Skills
5 54 (10.27%) Law
6 52 (9.89%) Legal
7 42 (7.98%) Banking
7 42 (7.98%) Retail
8 32 (6.08%) Financial Institution
9 31 (5.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 31 (5.89%) Manufacturing
10 25 (4.75%) Electronics
11 24 (4.56%) Public Sector
12 21 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (3.80%) Telecoms
14 14 (2.66%) Digital Economy
14 14 (2.66%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (2.47%) Billing
16 11 (2.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 150 (28.52%) Product Manager
2 73 (13.88%) Lead
3 69 (13.12%) Senior
4 29 (5.51%) Senior Manager
5 23 (4.37%) Product Owner
6 21 (3.99%) Senior Product Manager
7 20 (3.80%) Product Lead
8 19 (3.61%) Product Management Director
9 18 (3.42%) Security Engineer
10 16 (3.04%) Architect
11 15 (2.85%) Developer
11 15 (2.85%) Digital Product Manager
12 14 (2.66%) Change Manager
12 14 (2.66%) Technical Support
13 13 (2.47%) Product Delivery Manager
14 11 (2.09%) Head of Product Management
15 9 (1.71%) Development Manager
15 9 (1.71%) Head of Digital
15 9 (1.71%) Python Developer
16 8 (1.52%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.61%) REST
2 17 (3.23%) YAML
3 13 (2.47%) Keras
3 13 (2.47%) PyTorch
3 13 (2.47%) TensorFlow
4 8 (1.52%) Flask
5 7 (1.33%) .NET
5 7 (1.33%) EDI
5 7 (1.33%) FastAPI
6 6 (1.14%) Node.js
7 5 (0.95%) React
8 4 (0.76%) JSON
8 4 (0.76%) OAuth
8 4 (0.76%) SAML
8 4 (0.76%) SOAP
8 4 (0.76%) XML
9 3 (0.57%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.57%) Vue
10 2 (0.38%) Next.js
10 2 (0.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 80 (15.21%) Product Ownership
2 54 (10.27%) Onboarding
3 35 (6.65%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (5.89%) Management Information System
5 18 (3.42%) Data Centre
6 17 (3.23%) Security Posture
7 15 (2.85%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.47%) Algorithms
9 12 (2.28%) Driving Licence
10 10 (1.90%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.90%) Social Media
11 9 (1.71%) IoT
12 8 (1.52%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.52%) Public Cloud
13 7 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 7 (1.33%) Tandem
13 7 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.95%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.14%) Windows
2 4 (0.76%) Linux
3 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (0.38%) zOS
4 1 (0.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (47.34%) Roadmaps
2 214 (40.68%) Agile
3 131 (24.90%) Problem-Solving
4 121 (23.00%) Product Roadmap
5 117 (22.24%) Product Strategy
6 103 (19.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 91 (17.30%) AI
8 88 (16.73%) Analytics
9 87 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
10 85 (16.16%) User Experience
11 71 (13.50%) Computer Science
12 68 (12.93%) B2B
13 67 (12.74%) Information Security
14 63 (11.98%) Decision-Making
15 62 (11.79%) Mentoring
16 61 (11.60%) Product Vision
17 58 (11.03%) Coaching
17 58 (11.03%) Value Proposition
18 57 (10.84%) Strategic Thinking
18 57 (10.84%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 41 (7.79%) SQL
2 34 (6.46%) Python
3 19 (3.61%) Java
4 17 (3.23%) PowerShell
5 6 (1.14%) C#
6 5 (0.95%) Go
7 3 (0.57%) C++
8 2 (0.38%) Bash
8 2 (0.38%) COBOL
8 2 (0.38%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.38%) JCL
8 2 (0.38%) PHP
8 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.38%) Scala
8 2 (0.38%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.19%) Groovy
9 1 (0.19%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.19%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.19%) R
9 1 (0.19%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 126 (23.95%) Degree
2 58 (11.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 52 (9.89%) Master's Degree
4 32 (6.08%) Security Cleared
5 20 (3.80%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.71%) MBA
7 8 (1.52%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.52%) PMP
8 7 (1.33%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.95%) CISSP
9 5 (0.95%) CSPO
10 4 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.76%) CISM
10 4 (0.76%) SAP Certification
11 3 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.57%) CITP
11 3 (0.57%) HNC
11 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.38%) Dell Certification
12 2 (0.38%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.08%) QA
2 27 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (4.18%) NIST
4 20 (3.80%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.42%) NCSC
6 15 (2.85%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.14%) ISO 20022
8 5 (0.95%) IFRS
8 5 (0.95%) PMO
9 4 (0.76%) GDPR
9 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.76%) SEPA
10 3 (0.57%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.57%) PSD2
10 3 (0.57%) SLA
11 2 (0.38%) COREP
11 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.38%) FINREP
12 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (2.09%) Docker
2 5 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.95%) vSphere
3 3 (0.57%) Firmware
4 2 (0.38%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.38%) RACF
4 2 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (2.09%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.90%) Terraform
3 4 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (0.38%) WSUS
5 1 (0.19%) Ansible
5 1 (0.19%) Argo
5 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.19%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.19%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 66 (12.55%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.60%) Google
3 20 (3.80%) Salesforce
4 19 (3.61%) Databricks
4 19 (3.61%) Foundry
5 15 (2.85%) Dell
6 14 (2.66%) SAP
7 13 (2.47%) NVIDIA
8 9 (1.71%) OpenAI
9 6 (1.14%) Zoho
10 5 (0.95%) Adobe
10 5 (0.95%) Manugistics
10 5 (0.95%) VMware
11 4 (0.76%) Sage
12 3 (0.57%) Apple
12 3 (0.57%) Cisco
12 3 (0.57%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.57%) Oracle
12 3 (0.57%) Tenable
12 3 (0.57%) YouTube